How Ancient Apparition and Outworld Destroyer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Outworld Destroyer win 53.96% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 4,735 matches.
Trying to burst down a single target together highlights the friction in this pairing. Outworld Destroyer's Arcane Orb deals pure damage, so it gets no benefit from the magic resistance reduction of Ancient Apparition's Ice Vortex. Their control spells can also work against each other. An Astral Imprisonment cast at the wrong moment will make a hero immune, preventing the stun from Cold Feet from ever triggering. This lack of a clean setup-and-burst sequence means they don't naturally create kills together.
Because of this, the duo often cedes early tempo and has to rely on their ultimates to win fights. A fight might go well if a good Ice Blast hits key targets before Outworld Destroyer commits with Sanity's Eclipse, but the spells don't directly enable each other. The lineup feels like two heroes playing separate games on the same map. One is looking for global snipes and teamfight control, while the other is focused on farming items to scale his own single-target damage.
How this pairing performs across skill brackets — the duo's team win rate in recent ranked matches, split by average match rank. Ranks with too few recent matches are omitted. These rows use the last 30 days of quality-filtered ranked matches, all patches in that span combined — a wider window than the patch-scoped count above, so the per-rank match totals can exceed it.
| Rank | Team win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 52.09% | 215 |
| Crusader & Archon | 55.36% | 681 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.74% | 611 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.02% | 147 |
This duo's team win rate in each recent balance patch — whether the pairing is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Team win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 53.96% | ▲ +4.3pp | 4,735 |
| 7.41d | 49.64% | ▼ -0.1pp | 39,125 |
| 7.41c | 49.74% | ▲ +0.9pp | 16,549 |
| 7.41b | 48.87% | — | 18,930 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.